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More Apple Maps glitches depict a disturbing, surreal world

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This is what happens when texture mapping goes horribly wrong — an algorithm’s failed attempt to align three-dimensional models to a two-dimensional image. The result is something only Salvador Dali would be proud of.

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These images, which were produced by Apple iOS Maps, were compiled by Trapcode founder Peder Norrby and can be found as his Flickr account. And they’re really quite wild. Cars and trucks appear to melt, trees morph into apartment buildings, and roads take on the character of sheer cliffs.

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